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enNew Partnership for Capacity Development in Household Surveys for Welfare Analysishttp://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/new-partnership-capacity-development-household-surveys-welfare-analysis
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In low- and middle-income countries, household surveys are often the primary source of socio-economic data used by decision makers to make informed decisions and monitor national development plans and the SDGs. However, household surveys continue to suffer from low quality and limited cross-country comparability, and many countries lack the necessary resources and know-how to develop and maintain sustainable household survey systems.<br />
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The World Bank’s Center for Development Data (C4D2) in Rome and the Bank of Italy— with financial support by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation and commitments from other Italian and African institutions—have launched a new initiative to address these issues.</p>
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The<em> Partnership for Capacity Development in Household Surveys for Welfare Analysis </em>aims to improve the quality and sustainability of national surveys by strengthening capacity in regional training centers in the collection, analysis, and use of household surveys and other microdata, as well as in the integration of household surveys with other data sources.<br />
<br /><img alt="" height="200" src="http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/files/opendata/c4d2_training_mou.jpg" style="float:left" title="" width="300" />On Monday, nine partners signed an MoU describing the intent of the Partnership, at the Bank of Italy in Rome<em>. </em>The signatories included Haishan Fu (Director, Development Data Group, World Bank), Valeria Sannucci (Deputy Governor, Bank of Italy), Pietro Sebastiani (Director General for Cooperation and Development, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Italian Republic), Laura Frigenti (Director, Italian Agency for Development Cooperation), Giorgio Alleva (President, Italian National Institute of Statistics), Stefano Vella (Research Manager, Italian National Institute of Health), Oliver Chinganya (Director, African Centre for Statistics of the UN Economic Commission for Africa), Frank Mkumbo (Rector, Eastern Africa Statistical Training Center), and Hugues Kouadio (Director, École Nationale Supérieure de Statistique et d’Économie Appliquée<em>). </em><br />
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The Partnership will offer a biannual Training Week on household surveys and thematic workshops on specialized topics to be held in Italy in training facilities made available by the Bank of Italy, as well as regular short courses and seminars held at regional statistical training facilities to maximize outreach and impact. The first of a series of Training-of-Trainers (ToT) courses will be held in Fall 2017.<br />
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For more information, please contact: <a href="mailto:c4d2@worldbank.org">c4d2@worldbank.org</a>.</p>
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</div></div></div>Wed, 21 Jun 2017 15:00:00 +0000Vini Vaid2217 at http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendataSwedish firms provide training and consider an inadequately educated workforce as the major obstacle to their operations http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/swedish-firms-provide-training-and-consider-inadequately-educated-workforce-major-obstacle-their
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><em>The private sector is a critical driver of job creation and economic growth. However, several factors can undermine private enterprise and, if left unresolved, may blunt growth. Through rigorous face-to-face interviews with managers and owners of private firms, the World Bank Group’s </em><a href="http://www.enterprisesurveys.org/"><em>Enterprise Surveys</em></a> <em>benchmark the business environment in countries, based on the direct experiences of firms.</em><br />
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This blog is based on the <a href="http://www.enterprisesurveys.org/data/exploreeconomies/2014/sweden">Sweden Enterprise Survey</a> (ES), which covered 600 firms across 4 regions and 6 business sectors.
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Gender equality is one of the cornerstones of modern Swedish society. In the workplace, however, women are still underrepresented at the upper levels of corporate responsibility and decision-making, especially in the private sector. While women constitute more than one-third of the country’s private sector workforce, they account for only 23% of all managers—with an even smaller percentage of top managers. In 2013, when the Sweden Enterprise Survey was conducted, only 12% of firms in Sweden were led by a top <a href="http://www.enterprisesurveys.org/data/exploreeconomies/2014/sweden#gender">woman manager</a>.<br />
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